Missed chances to stop Holly's stalker who was arrested for attacking the mother of his two children: Deadly 35-stone loser drank four pints of cola a day and was already accused of rape - but complained HE was the victim

 Throughout his beingness Gavin Plumb has had a occupation with women.

The youngest of 3 brothers, the 37-year-old 'mummy's boy' from Harlow, Essex, started beingness successful a assembly location with his father, Adrian Broad, and his mother. His parents' matrimony did not last, and erstwhile his mum wed a information guard, the children took the surname Plumb.

A half-brother followed. The boys' biologic father, who besides remarried, would hardly diagnostic successful his sons' lives from past onwards.

Mr Broad, 61, told the Daily Mail: 'We divided up and I had visitation rights for the boys.

'But I had to halt seeing them due to the fact that my father-in-law said I couldn't bring them astir determination immoderate more. They each deliberation I abandoned them but I didn't; it's due to the fact that I had obscurity to instrumentality them. None of my boys privation to talk to me.'

Plumb's 62-year-old mother, who worked arsenic a infirmary healthcare assistant, declined to talk with the Mail but has resolutely stuck up for her lad contempt his evident flaws and failings.

'His mum is simply a large portion of his life,' a household person said. 'She adores him and worships the crushed helium walks on. She loves her children unconditionally.'

Described arsenic a 'quiet' child, Plumb grew up collecting Ghostbusters merchandise and playing the phantasy role-playing crippled Dungeons & Dragons.

'He was biggish; simple-looking,' said the parent of an aged schoolhouse person astatine Passmores secondary schoolhouse successful Harlow. 'He's ever been similar that.'

Indeed, by the property of 13, Plumb had started to enactment connected truthful overmuch value that helium noticed girls would 'friendzone' him alternatively than fancy him. Those who cognize him judge his aboriginal behaviour astir women is rooted successful the intersexual vexation helium experienced from past on.

In 2003, and astatine Harlow College, helium was 1 of a fig of students who helped make a mosaic for the town's autobus station, appearing alongside the enactment of creation connected the beforehand leafage of the section newspaper.

It would beryllium the lone clip successful his beingness that helium would garner affirmative headlines.

Soon after, helium embarked connected the 1 superior narration of his lifetime.

He archetypal met Laura Roberts aged 12 – her sister was astatine schoolhouse with him. Slim and lasting astatine conscionable 5ft tall, she was dwarfed by her caller boyfriend. They started dating astatine 18.

'I ever looked younger than my property erstwhile I was that young,' Ms Roberts wrote adjacent to a photograph from the clip posted connected her Facebook page.

This was to beryllium nary emotion story. Ms Roberts has told friends she lone got unneurotic with Plumb, by past piling connected the pounds and with a idiosyncratic hygiene problem, due to the fact that helium was a 'safe bet' who 'no 1 other would want'.

It would crook into a profoundly 'toxic relationship' – Plumb's words – that the Mail tin uncover was punctuated by accusations of home violence.

'He was truly bully astatine the opening and then, 8 months into the relationship, helium became violent,' a person of the mates claimed.

'It started disconnected with affectional maltreatment and past became physical. He wouldn't fto her walk wealth connected what she wanted. When she was large with their lad she had cravings, but helium wouldn't fto her bargain cocoa for herself unless she bought it for him arsenic well.

'They'd person arguments and he'd laic into her. They could reason implicit anything. It was stupid. He conscionable seemed to emotion the power.'

On a fig of occasions Ms Roberts called constabulary to study that Plumb had physically attacked her, and helium was arrested connected astatine slightest 1 occasion. Last nighttime a constabulary root confirmed that reports of home unit were made but that Plumb was ne'er charged with immoderate offence.

After spells moving astatine Asda and successful the café of the section greyhound track, Plumb landed a occupation travelling by obstruction betwixt stations, checking car-parking tickets.

It would supply him with the archetypal accidental to indulge his sick fantasies.

In August 2006, the 19-year-old targeted 2 uniformed Ryanair workers travelling from Bishop's Stortford to Stansted Airport.

In the archetypal incidental helium sat successful beforehand of 1 of the women and handed her a note. It read: 'I volition bash anything.'

When she moved to different spot Plumb followed and showed her different portion of insubstantial that stated: 'I person got a gun. Do what I say. So conscionable basal up and get disconnected astatine the adjacent halt with me. Don't outcry oregon marque a sound. Don't halt maine from touching you due to the fact that I won't wounded you. If you bash each of this, nary 1 volition get wounded but if you don't, I americium going to sprout you and myself and everyone else.'

When she became upset, different passengers intervened. Plumb moved down the carriage and got off.

Two days later, different aerial stewardess was successful an astir bare carriage erstwhile Plumb sat beside her.

He showed her a enactment which read: 'I'm a constabulary officer. You person to get disconnected astatine the adjacent presumption for a speedy chat.'

He asked her if she wanted to spot his ID and helium produced a card. The pistillate said thing and Plumb got disconnected astatine the adjacent stop.

Soon aft helium was approached by a British Transport Police serviceman connected the platform. When asked if helium had claimed to beryllium a constabulary officer, Plumb said: 'My small member uses my coat. He pretends to beryllium a constabulary officer. I've conscionable remembered, there's a weapon successful my pocket.'

He had a achromatic artifact handgun and 3 pieces of enactment connected him. When arrested, helium said that helium wanted to beryllium a constabulary assemblage enactment officer.

Giving grounds successful the Willoughby proceedings helium was again probed astir the incident – this clip admitting that helium had fantasies astir aerial stewardesses. It was besides revealed that helium had referred to the women successful messages, writing: 'Can you blasted maine for trying to instrumentality the sl***?'

The pursuing March, Plumb, who had been held successful situation connected remand, pleaded blameworthy to 2 charges of attempted kidnap and received a 12-month suspended sentence.

It was his archetypal conviction. In mitigation the tribunal was told the offences were 'an aberration'. If only.

For a clip Plumb and Ms Roberts carried connected their dysfunctional relationship. But aft a lad and a girl were calved wrong 11 months of 1 another, they split.

'She said helium was similar having different child, alternatively than a partner,' a person said. 'He seldom washed and she utilized to person to tally his showers for him and archer him to get in. And helium ne'er stopped eating. He would person 4 bits of toast successful the greeting followed by loads of fruit.

'Then helium would person a large lunch, similar 2 to 4 sandwiches, past helium would person loads of cocoa and rubbish to devour and then, aft that, 2 dinners. He'd adjacent bargain his son's nutrient erstwhile helium was a baby.'

In November 2008, Plumb was accused of rape, the Daily Mail tin reveal.

During the alleged incident, Plumb was accused of forcing his unfortunate to the level and covering her rima with his hand. At the clip Plumb was said to person been dressed successful a reddish Liverpool strip, an outfit helium often wore.

(Indeed, specified is Plumb's emotion of the nine that successful 2020 helium adjacent recorded an excruciatingly atrocious rendition of its anthem You'll Never Walk Alone arsenic portion of a lockdown task designed to bring fans together. The footage is inactive disposable online.)

The alleged rape was reported to Essex Police and the unfortunate was interviewed by specializer officers, but the Mail understands Plumb seemingly claimed that the intersexual brushwood was consensual.

Last nighttime a constabulary root confirmed that an allegation of rape against Plumb had been made but that it resulted successful nary further enactment being taken against Plumb.

Just weeks later, successful December, Plumb was successful occupation again, this clip aft targeting 2 16-year-old girls moving astatine Woolworths, wherever helium had got a occupation arsenic a store assistant.

Given his transgression record, it is unclear however helium landed the relation oregon whether helium underwent immoderate checks.

Those who worked determination astatine the clip retrieve him arsenic a dishevelled quality with unspeakable assemblage odour.

Two weeks earlier Christmas, the miss and a person were moving successful an upstairs store country erstwhile they asked Plumb for help.

Instead, helium pulled retired a knife, telling them: 'Get to the backmost of the stockroom.'

Removing enactment and portion from his pockets, helium made the girls look a wall, taping the hands of 1 of them down her back. As helium past prepared to gag her mouth, the 2nd miss ran off. The alarm was raised and Plumb arrested.

In June 2009 helium pleaded blameworthy to 2 charges of mendacious imprisonment and 1 of artillery and was jailed for 32 months.

While those progressive with the lawsuit believed it was a sexually motivated crime, erstwhile giving grounds past week the 37-year-old claimed it was successful information 'a outcry for help'.

Indeed, during cross-examination, helium claimed that some his offences were motivated by a tendency to beryllium incarcerated truthful helium could get distant from his partner.

An bonzer excuse – but par for the people for a antheral who ever saw himself arsenic the victim.

Clearly his clip wrong did small to alteration Plumb.

Because acold from showing remorse for what helium had done, erstwhile discussing the Willoughby crippled with different men online helium boasted of his erstwhile convictions.

He besides suggested that situation had not been atrocious – saying that helium had been capable to ticker arsenic overmuch tv arsenic helium wanted and person usage of a telephone.

On his merchandise connected licence, Plumb was banned from being successful the institution of under-18s. His ex-partner duly won a tribunal bid stopping him from seeing his 2 children, which Plumb unsuccessfully challenged.

Jobs astatine Pizza Hut and McDonald's followed.

Meanwhile, Plumb's emotion beingness continued to spell badly.

The Mail has learned that successful 2013 helium was beaten up connected the streets of Harlow connected the acquisition of a disgruntled ex-girlfriend.

He past claimed to person enjoyed a two-month narration with a pistillate who was into bondage and sadomasochism. When helium was arrested past year, constabulary recovered instrumentality including a shot gag, ringing gag, blindfolds and cuffs astatine his flat.

The prosecution claimed it was really a 'restraint kit' to beryllium utilized connected Ms Willoughby, 43.

Not lone was it unused but Plumb refused to divulge the bondage-loving woman's identity, claiming: 'It's not just to sanction her.' A noble gesture? Or, arsenic the prosecution suggested, she simply did not exist.

Already obese, Plumb's value ballooned astir this time, heading towards an all-time precocious of 35-and-a-half stone.

'He started to get similar that aft the narration breakdowns,' said a friend. 'Another origin was not getting to spot the children. He conscionable gave up connected life.'

Stuck successful his flat, helium would devour immense amounts of junk nutrient washed down with 4 pints of cola a day.

That we cognize the item of his beingness is acknowledgment to a bid of interviews helium did with the BBC, firstly successful 2016 and past successful 2018. He had primitively contacted Radio 5 Live to picture his agelong conflict with his weight.

Unsurprisingly, helium ne'er shared the darker broadside of his beingness with the nation's broadcaster.

'The past clip I went retired unaided was 2014 – it was my parents' wedding vow renewal,' helium moaned. 'I lone truly spell retired my beforehand doorway to enactment retired a bin bag – that's each fewer days. Other than that, I don't permission my doorstep.'

But friends question that mentation of events, saying: 'It was each 'poor me' with Gavin. He told the BBC helium couldn't spell retired of his house, but helium utilized to spell everywhere.'

Plumb added: 'I get thorax pains and I've conscionable been told it's due to the fact that of my weight. I'm frightened that if I person thing to devour oregon if I get up and I bash excessively much, that's it, I'm done.'

He praised his 'fantastic' parents who came implicit to cleanable but said his parent was truthful disquieted helium mightiness person a bosom onslaught that helium had fixed her a acceptable of keys – 'just successful case'.

And truthful it was successful April 2018 that Plumb underwent country to person a gastric sleeve fitted, reducing his stomach's capacity. It was, helium said, his 'last resort'.

The cognition was a success. Within 10 days helium had mislaid 22lbs.

'When I near the infirmary I was wearing 5XL apparel but astir 2 months aboriginal I was capable to acceptable into a 3XL T-shirt,' helium said.

'That was truly affectional for me. I consciousness amended astir myself but I inactive don't similar the mode I look. I cognize that volition travel successful clip and I volition get my assurance back. I bash consciousness happier wrong myself.'

And helium added: 'This country is not lone going to alteration my life, it's going to prevention my life.'

Outwardly, astatine least, things did look to amended for Plumb.

His stepfather, who himself worked arsenic a information guard, is understood to person got Plumb a akin relation astatine a buying centre successful Harlow. Again, however helium managed to get specified a occupation fixed his erstwhile convictions is unclear.

In messages revealed during his caller proceedings Plumb claimed to person undergone ceremonial information grooming and to person passed his Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence, which is required for astir roles wrong the UK information industry.

But an SIA spokesperson told the Mail that successful information Plumb had ne'er held specified a licence.

'He talked astir his household a lot,' said different acquaintance. 'He was excited to beryllium getting his beingness backmost together. He was a monolithic gamer and liked spending clip connected his computer.

'He mentioned helium liked playing shooting games. He was looking to determination into a caller location due to the fact that his existent spot had 1 bedroom. He said he'd been speaking to the societal services.'

But excavation a small deeper and what we present cognize is that thing had fundamentally changed astir who and what Plumb was.

He had successful information spent the champion portion of a decennary indulging his perversions online.

Communicating via messaging services with a set of depraved oddballs, Plumb joined concealed groups with names specified arsenic 'Abduct Lovers' connected Kik, a Canadian messaging app, wherever members discussed kidnap, rape and uncovering accomplices to 'carry retired murders'.

One of his astir predominant online contacts was a idiosyncratic named 'Marc', who told Plumb helium was from Ireland.

When Plumb was arrested, helium had 10,322 images of Ms Willoughby and different celebrities, arsenic good arsenic deep-fake pornography featuring her.

Ultimately the program concocted by Plumb progressive putting unneurotic a pack to interruption into mother-of-three Ms Willoughby's house, wherever they would usage chloroform to incapacitate her and hubby Dan Baldwin, 49.

She would past beryllium taken to a 'dungeon-style room' and repeatedly raped earlier her pharynx was slit and her assemblage dumped successful a lake.

In describing precisely what helium wanted to bash to Ms Willoughby, Plumb said: 'Getting her has been my eventual phantasy for mode excessively long. I'm present astatine the constituent that phantasy isn't capable immoderate more. I privation the existent thing.'

Plumb anticipated ending up successful prison, the tribunal was told, but described the '23-hour bang-up' authorities successful jailhouse arsenic an accidental to 'watch arsenic overmuch TV arsenic you like'.

In the extremity helium would beryllium arrested connected October 4 past twelvemonth aft helium began chatting with a US-based undercover constabulary officer, whose findings were passed to the Metropolitan Police.

When constabulary smashed their mode into his level and informed him helium was being accused of conspiracy to kidnap Ms Willoughby, Plumb told officers: 'I'm not gonna lie. She is simply a phantasy of mine.'

In his defence Plumb would assertion that it was each conscionable online chat, saying: 'There's a monolithic quality betwixt what's online and existent life.'

He besides played down comments astir 'leaping implicit a fence' during the planned night-time raid astatine Ms Willoughby's London house, saying: 'I've got much accidental of tripping implicit a step.'

As for the chloroform, helium claimed that helium had lone purchased 2 bottles of the liquid due to the fact that helium wanted to region a stain from his carpet.

In letters written to friends from situation helium spoke of his assurance that helium would get off, arguing that due to the fact that it was each online determination were nary existent victims this time.

But arsenic the girls and women unfortunate capable to beryllium targeted successful the past cognize to their cost, Plumb's fantasies were truthful uncontrollable that thing mightiness person happened.